Comments for Geert JM Vanderkelen

Comment on Aperture: add tags to multiple shot but beware of Primary Only by Lloyd

Lloyd — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:14:53 +0000

Thanks, Agree that this tip was a lifesaver. Pity that the Aperture 3 “manual” doesn’t seem to mention it. I was very frustrated when I did as they suggested and dragged the keywords to one of the images of my selection and found that this was the only image that had the keywords attached.

Your tip allows me to do what I (and obviously many others want to do).

Comment on Automatic reconnect in MySQL Connector/Python? by Seun Osewa

Seun Osewa — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:32:10 +0000

It’s probably best to provide a separate API to handle reconnection and transactions.

Comment on Automatic reconnect in MySQL Connector/Python? by Volans

Volans — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:14:13 +0000

The auto-reconnection should be useful only if it where able to redo a failed query, reopening the connection and doing the same query/transaction failed.

But in addition to transaction boundaries, there are many other circumstances to keep in mind like the connection encoding, various timeouts, and potentially any other MySQL session o global parameter that can be changed at runtime after the connection was established.
In which state would you reopen the connection in those cases?

Another particular case should be if the server parameters are changed from the first connection… the code maybe check those settings while connecting, the auto-reconnection can’t do it with the same logic the application does.

For those reasons for me too the aut.oreconnection should not be implemented.

Comment on Automatic reconnect in MySQL Connector/Python? by Ulf Wendel

Ulf Wendel — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:34:43 +0000

There aint no safe and water-proof way to detect transaction boundaries. Do not do automatic reconnect by default. Put, big, big warning into the manual for those who want it.

Comment on Splitting as string and joining a list using AppleScript by Tuck

Tuck — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:21:38 +0000

Worked like a champ, much appreciated.

Comment on Technology slowing us down by Matthias

Matthias — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:27:57 +0000

DVDs may take 30 seconds to start (these days it’s more like 5min because Hollywood insists on non-skippable obnoxiousness), but VHS actually takes longer – because you forgot to rewind the thing last time you watched it. And you get subtitles and multiple languages- And you can watch the thing 20 years later.

Paper maps are great unless it’s windy. Or you’re driving alone. Or they’re out of date.
Modern tech gives me OpenStreetMap: I can fix the map myself. It gives me WikiTravel. And so on.

Subway schedules? Suppose you’re not already in a subway station, but someplace random. Find nearest bus station, find correct underground station from printed schedule sprinkled with random little ‘U’ characters, try to guess which bus line may or may not get you closest to the destination. Lots of fun.

And so on.

Conclusion: No, I won’t want to go back to the old ways.

NB: *their way.

Comment on Fixing iPhoto’s AlbumData.xml for importing into Google’s Picasa by dcat

dcat — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:50:06 +0000

Geert:

Excellent tip!
Worked like a charm!
I really appreciate you help with those instructions!
Regards…

dcat

Comment on MySQL Connector/Python available through the Python Package Index by Geert Vanderkelen

Geert Vanderkelen — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:52:48 +0000

@Daniel Gerep 1) MySQLdb is not MySQL Connector/Python. If you want to use Connector/Python, you are not using the command line posted in my blog. 2) I'm not Windows savvy enough to help you but it seems it can't really find the file it wants.

Comment on MySQL Connector/Python available through the Python Package Index by Daniel Gerep

Daniel Gerep — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:22:43 +0000

Hi Geert, this is my first time with Python and thanks you I’ve found a practical way to install MySQL connector on Python but Im having difficulties, so if you can help me…

I have used pip to install the connector but when I try to install MySQLdb it gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Python27\downloads\MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup.py”, line 15, in

metadata, options = get_config()
File “C:\Python27\downloads\MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup_windows.py”, line 7, in g
et_config
serverKey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, options['registry_ke
y'])
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

I’m using Windows x64 and I have created on regedit under Wow6432Node a Python node, the same created by the installer under SOFTWARE. I have added C:\Python27\Scripts on my PATH

Any idea?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Comment on My New Job at Oracle: Working on MySQL Connector/Python by Tony Pines

Tony Pines — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:49:07 +0000

Geert, If you’re at Oracle now working on MySQL and Python, does this mean that Oracle will be supplying some official Python/MySQL support for licensed Standard and Enterprise users?